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  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)

Overview

Cynthia Rosenzweig is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions spanning several related subfields and topics.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields of study they have engaged with include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Environmental Engineering

Research topics covered in their publications are:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate variability and models
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Cynthia Rosenzweig include:

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models, 2021, Nature Food
  • Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach, 2020, Nature Food
  • Narrowing uncertainties in the effects of elevated CO2 on crops, 2020, Nature Food
  • A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Call for transparency of COVID-19 models, 2020, Science

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Nature Food
  • Climatic Change
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science

Notable frequent coauthors with whom Cynthia Rosenzweig has published multiple papers include:

  • Alex C. Ruane
  • Erik Mencos Contreras
  • Jonas Jägermeyr
  • Carolyn Z. Mutter
  • William Solecki

Their book publications reflect contributions to climate change and urban resilience topics. These include:

  • Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems, published by WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks, 2021
  • Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025
  • Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025
  • Our Warming Planet, World Scientific, 2021

Cynthia Rosenzweig has received several fellowships identifying professional recognition within scientific communities, including:

  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2015
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2006
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001
  • Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), 1996

Best Publications

  • Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants

    Terry L. Root;Jeff T. Price;Kimberly R. Hall;Stephen H. Schneider

  • Climate Change 2007 Synthesis report

    Lenny Bernstein;Peter Bosch;Osvaldo Canziani;Zhenlin Chen

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Potential impact of climate change on world food supply

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Martin L. Parry

  • Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios

    M.L Parry;C Rosenzweig;A Iglesias;M Livermore

  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;David Karoly;Marta Vicarelli;Peter Neofotis

  • Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events; Implications for Food Production, Plant Diseases, and Pests

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Ana Iglesias;X.B. Yang;Paul R. Epstein

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and Pilot Studies

    C. Rosenzweig;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones;J. L. Hatfield;A. C. Ruane;A. C. Ruane

  • Global climate change and US agriculture

    Richard M. Adams;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Robert M. Peart;Joe T. Ritchie

  • Assessment of observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems

    Cynthia Rosenzweig

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Christoph Müller;Alex C. Ruane;Joshua Elliott

  • Cities lead the way in climate–change action

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William Solecki;Stephen A. Hammer;Shagun Mehrotra

  • Increased crop damage in the US from excess precipitation under climate change

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Francesco N. Tubiello;Richard Goldberg;Evan Mills

  • How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

    Simona Bassu;Nadine Brisson;Jean Louis Durand;Kenneth Boote

  • Climate change and world food security: a new assessment

    Martin Parry;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Ana Iglesias;Günther Fischer

  • Brief History of Agricultural Systems Modeling

    James W. Jones;John M. Antle;Bruno O. Basso;Kenneth J. Boote

  • Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture

    Cynthia E Rosenzweig;Daniel Hillel

  • Climate change, global food supply and risk of hunger

    Martin Parry;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Matthew Livermore

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York
James W. Jones
James W. Jones University of Florida
Kenneth J. Boote
Kenneth J. Boote University of Florida
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Patrick L. Kinney
Patrick L. Kinney Boston University
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Radley M. Horton
Radley M. Horton Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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